PSARC/2007/617 p7zip 4.55

[Joerg Schilling]

Danek Duvall <danek.duvall at sun.com> wrote:

> I'm sponsoring the following fast-track for myself.  I'm setting the
> time-out to one week from today: November 9, 2007.  Release binding is
> Patch due to the desire to include this in the S10 updates.
>
> Thanks,
> Danek
>
> ===========================================================================
>
> 1. Background
>
> 	This project proposes to integrate p7zip[1,2], a freeware archiving
> 	and compression utility.  It is similar in usage to zip, as opposed
> 	to gzip or tar, and compresses as well as archives.  The compression
> 	algorithm is LZMA[3], which, compared to bzip2, generally gives
> 	higher compression ratios, and is generally more cpu and memory
> 	friendly on decompression.

I hope the p7zip binary will be included, it is needed by star.

I also hope that someone creates a version that _really_ deals with stdin/stdout
and delivers a compress(1) compatible interface.

The current "p7zip" is a shell script that creates an intermediate /tmp/ file.

Jörg

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